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[Calmac78]

Hi all, new to the group, hava a mk2 1600 sport, had it for last year and a half. Been the car that I wanted for the last 30 years and finally have 1!!! 

[Monza]

Welcome to OSF....looks a clean mk2

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[Vista]

Welcome to Old Skool Ford 👍

[BaileyMex]

Welcome to OSF

Car looks great, do you have any plans for it?

[Xp197777]

Welcome to OSF nice sport 👍

[Calmac78]

Had a wee bit of work done, used to have sunroof but whoever took it out didn't put any strengthening underneath so roof had sunk, got it filled in and guy did really good job of getting it sorted, interior was shocking south African seats but had been horribly covered, so managed to get a decent set of ghia seats for front. Until I get them coloured went really old skool and wife got me furry black seat covers 😂. Just need a wee bit of fine tuning engine and carbs wise and tidy up under bonnet. Other than that possibly a set of 13s, loads saying 15s look to big but I kinda like them 

[Johnny Boy]

I like the colour. My SA 1600 sport is Light blue.

Welcome to the world of SA escorts , and dodgy repairs 🙄

Personally I prefer the 13 inch wheels over the 15's

[Rally Pack 2000]

2 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

I like the colour. My SA 1600 sport is Light blue.

Welcome to the world of SA escorts , and dodgy repairs 🙄

Personally I prefer the 13 inch wheels over the 15's

Welcome to the forum.

It looks like Ford South African Terra Cotta Red? Shame the seats lost their battle with time though, the Matching Chocolate seats with red or tan stripe do look pretty good when new.

If it still has both of its vin plates I would love to confirm the paint and trim codes with you for my data base?

[Calmac78]

Should have been midnight blue, on SA docs it just said red! Couple more things to do to it but next winter it will be to clean underside of thst horrible underseal they use and make sure everything's OK 

*Note - (Just edited your post, hiding your Vin details, some unscrupulous people may take advantage, Appreciate you posting them though, RP2000)

 

[Calmac78]

Also looking for a bit of info on the gearbox in the SA cars, 3rd gear is really noisy but managed to get a hold of another 4 speed out of a British mk2. Should it fit straight on or is there anything I need to do to it or get for it? 

[Rally Pack 2000]

11 hours ago, Calmac78 said:

Should have been midnight blue, on SA docs it just said red! Couple more things to do to it but next winter it will be to clean underside of thst horrible underseal they use and make sure everything's OK

Darn I was hoping to get the Code for their Terra-Cotta Red!

Its strange they painted over the blue to the red colour it is now. If you were thinking of repainting it though it was not actually Midnight Blue. That wasn't a colour Ford South Africa used on their Sports. It is in fact Marine Blue and originally looked like this!  ..........

Still a long way from Red though ..... hmmmm?

[Rally Pack 2000]

9 hours ago, Calmac78 said:

Also looking for a bit of info on the gearbox in the SA cars, 3rd gear is really noisy but managed to get a hold of another 4 speed out of a British mk2. Should it fit straight on or is there anything I need to do to it or get for it? 

Should be a straight swap but there are a few exceptions but if its original to the Sport it will be the same as a UK spec car.

[Calmac78]

Cheers for that! Fingers crossed I can change it over soon😁. I actually like that colour of blue, looked at quite a few escorts, to either resto or get one almost done. Was really wanting to do a silver harrier, but who knows what the future will bring! 

[Johnny Boy]

2 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Darn I was hoping to get the Code for their Terra-Cotta Red!

Its strange they painted over the blue to the red colour it is now. If you were thinking of repainting it though it was not actually Midnight Blue. That wasn't a colour Ford South Africa used on their Sports. It is in fact Marine Blue and originally looked like this!  ..........

Still a long way from Red though ..... hmmmm?

That looks like the colour of mine, unfortunately mine has no chassis plates ☹️

[Rally Pack 2000]

2 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

That looks like the colour of mine, unfortunately mine has no chassis plates ☹️

Was it hard to get the car registered without its plates?

[Rally Pack 2000]

2 hours ago, Calmac78 said:

Cheers for that! Fingers crossed I can change it over soon😁. I actually like that colour of blue, looked at quite a few escorts, to either resto or get one almost done. Was really wanting to do a silver harrier, but who knows what the future will bring! 

Im not a huge fan of Mindnight Blue anyways. I think the South African Marine Blue is quite beautiful. If the car was that colour originally I wouldn't hesitate to go back to it. When UK dealers import and sell the cars in this colour they refer to it as Cologne Blue which is a European colour. So the colours are very close to each other.

[Johnny Boy]

53 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Was it hard to get the car registered without its plates?

No , very straight forward, it had been stolen and recovered in SA, and been assigned a SAPS AAP chassis number, which is a chassis number stamped into the strut top, issued by the South African Police Service.

That was on the SA log book.

So everything tallied up .

Only thing is I can't tell what it's original Vin number was , as they XXX it out.

The aluminium build and chassis plates on the front panel are missing 🙄

[Mrs O/H/C]

Welcome 🤗